1957–1958 Massachusetts legislature

none February 2025 January 2025 160thMassachusetts General Court General Court 1957 01 2 1958 10 17 https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge00mass2/page/348/mode/1up 2009 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court Length of Legislative Sessions 348+ 159th 161st Senate 40 Composition of the Massachusetts State Senate Mass.gov June 6, 2020 Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library https://www.mass.gov/service-details/resources-on-massachusetts-political-figures-in-the-state-library https://web.archive.org/web/20200606063917/https://www.mass.gov/doc/composition-of-the-massachusetts-state-senate-0/download Republican Composition of the Massachusetts State Senate Mass.gov June 6, 2020 Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library https://www.mass.gov/service-details/resources-on-massachusetts-political-figures-in-the-state-library https://web.archive.org/web/20200606063917/https://www.mass.gov/doc/composition-of-the-massachusetts-state-senate-0/download President Newland H. Holmes House 240 DemocratComposition of the State of Massachusetts House of Representatives Mass.gov June 6, 2020 Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library https://www.mass.gov/service-details/resources-on-massachusetts-political-figures-in-the-state-library https://web.archive.org/web/20200606064043/https://www.mass.gov/doc/composition-of-the-massachusetts-state-house-of-representatives-0/download Speaker John F. Thompson right 308 1953 Newland Holmes senator Massachusetts.jpg Newland H. Holmes Newland Holmes, Senate president. 1953 John Forbes Thompson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png John F. Thompson John Thompson, House speaker. Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1957-1958. The 160th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1957 and 1958 during the governorship of Foster Furcolo. Newland H. Holmes served as president of the Senate and John F. Thompson served as speaker of the House.1957–1958 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Boston https://archive.org/stream/publicofficersof19571958bost Internet Archive Senators portrait name date of birth district Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1957 State Library of Massachusetts https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/796305/1957-Senate-01-Appendix.pdf center|60px John Joseph Beades June 8, 1916 7th Suffolk center|60px Paul H. Benoit January 5, 1916 center|60px Philip Griggs Bowker April 17, 1899 center|60px Otto F. Burkhardt January 17, 1902 center|60px Harold Wilson Canavan May 13, 1915 center|60px Silvio O. Conte November 9, 1921 center|60px James J. Corbett November 27, 1896 center|60px Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890 center|60px Edward DeSaulnier January 8, 1921 center|60px Maurice A. Donahue September 12, 1918 center|60px Charles E. Ferguson January 30, 1894 center|60px William Daniel Fleming April 14, 1907 center|60px Mary L. Fonseca March 30, 1915 center|60px A. Frank Foster February 8, 1910 center|60px Donald Linwood Gibbs August 7, 1904 center|60px Joseph Francis Gibney January 9, 1911 center|60px Philip A. Graham May 21, 1910 center|60px William E. Hays November 28, 1903 center|60px Charles W. Hedges March 27, 1901 center|60px James W. Hennigan Jr. March 27, 1927 center|60px Charles V. Hogan April 12, 1897 center|60px Newland H. Holmes August 30, 1891 center|60px Warren Sherman Keith June 12, 1892 center|60px Harold R. Lundgren May 22, 1894 center|60px Ralph Collins Mahar January 4, 1912 center|60px Charles Sumner Marston 3d June 16, 1921 center|60px Francis X. McCann September 2, 1912 center|60px Frederick T. McDermott November 20, 1906 center|60px Arthur Joseph Mullen July 20, 1922 center|60px Charles William Olson August 24, 1889 center|60px John Francis Parker May 29, 1907 center|60px John E. Powers November 10, 1910 center|60px Elizabeth Stanton May 27, 1909 center|60px Edward C. Stone June 29, 1878 Herbert Tuckerman May 2, 1921 center|60px Mario Umana May 5, 1914 center|60px William X. Wall July 1, 1904 center|60px John Yerxa April 23, 1904 center|60px Stanley John Zarod April 11, 1920 Representatives portrait name date of birth district center|60px Harry Benjamin Albro January 21, 1887 2nd Barnstable center|60px Leonard H. Amoroso February 14, 1897 center|60px Walter T. Anderson January 6, 1891 center|60px Charles H. Anthony July 6, 1893 center|60px Ernest W. April January 15, 1915 center|60px John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901 center|60px Charles J. Artesani center|60px John George Asiaf June 30, 1900 center|60px John Robert Ayers February 18, 1911 center|60px Clifton H. Baker November 28, 1878 center|60px Fred A. Baumeister September 24, 1892 center|60px James C. Bayley October 28, 1908 center|60px Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888 center|60px Rene R. Bernardin July 24, 1910 center|60px Charles A. Bisbee Jr. June 8, 1918 center|60px Vinson Blanchard August 1, 1916 center|60px Carlton H. Bliss August 7, 1900 center|60px Belden Bly September 29, 1914 center|60px Frank Edwin Boot November 8, 1905 center|60px Gordon Dickson Boynton August 9, 1901 center|60px Malcolm Blanchard Boynton November 13, 1894 center|60px G. Edward Bradley October 21, 1906 center|60px Rene A. Brassard August 5, 1917 center|60px John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919 center|60px John D. Brown January 30, 1900 center|60px John Brox November 16, 1910 center|60px John Patrick Buckley 1906 center|60px Gardner E. Campbell November 22, 1886 center|60px John J. Campbell August 26, 1922 center|60px Michael Herbert Cantwell May 2, 1905 center|60px Richard Caples December 23, 1921 center|60px Charles W. Capraro November 2, 1920 center|60px Michael Joseph Carroll June 21, 1891 center|60px Ralph W. Cartwright Jr. October 5, 1920 center|60px William J. Casey (Massachusetts politician) June 27, 1905 center|60px Michael Catino February 21, 1904 center|60px John Joseph Cavanaugh December 16, 1921 center|60px Alexander J. Cella March 1, 1929 center|60px Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903 center|60px Wendell Phillips Chamberlain October 28, 1911 center|60px Amelio Della Chiesa July 31, 1901 center|60px Stephen T. Chmura August 25, 1916 center|60px Thomas Francis Coady Jr. May 8, 1905 center|60px Anthony M. Colonna May 2, 1916 center|60px George Raymand Como July 3, 1912 center|60px James Francis Condon February 4, 1899 center|60px Lloyd E. Conn November 26, 1904 center|60px William Augustine Connell, Jr November 17, 1922 center|60px Gilbert M. Coroa January 13, 1925 center|60px John W. Costello April 20, 1927 center|60px Leo Joseph Cournoyer December 11, 1905 center|60px William A. Cowing January 6, 1878 center|60px Russell H. Craig February 4, 1924 center|60px Robert P. Cramer October 22, 1916 center|60px Robert Q. Crane March 21, 1926 center|60px James J. Craven, Jr. March 24, 1919 center|60px Wallace Boyd Crawford November 19, 1908 center|60px John J. Cronin August 1, 1910 center|60px Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917 center|60px John A. Davis May 9, 1912 center|60px John Davoren July 27, 1915 center|60px James DeNormandie November 10, 1907 center|60px Domenic Victor DePari October 27, 1910 center|60px Wilfred Adolphus Derosier March 2, 1908 center|60px Cornelius Desmond October 4, 1893 center|60px Theophile Jean DesRoches June 27, 1902 center|60px Gerard F. Doherty April 6, 1928 center|60px Thomas J. Doherty August 25, 1919 center|60px John F. Dolan September 7, 1922 center|60px Richard T. Dolan January 4, 1924 center|60px James R. Doncaster January 28, 1919 center|60px Edmond J. Donlan December 19, 1899 center|60px Harold Lawrence Dower September 16, 1908 center|60px Charles Robert Doyle September 24, 1925 John T. Driscoll October 26, 1925 center|60px Charles E. Luke Driscoll October 1, 1909 center|60px Philip J. Durkin October 21, 1903 center|60px John Marshall Eaton Jr. March 26, 1918 center|60px Thomas Edward Enright August 1, 1881 center|60px Manuel Faria March 7, 1906 center|60px Thomas F. Farrell October 10, 1897 center|60px Lawrence F. Feloney September 11, 1921 center|60px William H. Finnegan March 29, 1926 center|60px Vernon R. Fletcher February 8, 1924 center|60px Jeremiah J. Foley October 28, 1915 center|60px Stephen L. French March 9, 1892 center|60px Peter B. Gay July 13, 1915 center|60px Frank S. Giles June 15, 1915 center|60px Louis Harry Glaser June 15, 1910 center|60px Edwin Daniel Gorman November 19, 1912 center|60px Hollis M. Gott May 25, 1885 center|60px Thomas T. Gray July 22, 1892 center|60px George Greene March 7, 1897 center|60px Edward D. Harrington Jr. August 11, 1921 center|60px Arthur Graham Heaney July 7, 1908 center|60px Francis J. Hickey, Jr. March 7, 1928 center|60px George W. Hill September 15, 1888 center|60px Isaac Alexander Hodgen March 28, 1907 center|60px Herbert B. Hollis September 10, 1899 center|60px Charles F. Holman June 21, 1892 center|60px J. Philip Howard February 16, 1907 center|60px Richard Lester Hull November 30, 1917 center|60px Walter Forbes Hurlburt February 18, 1917 center|60px Christopher A. Iannella May 29, 1913 center|60px John Peter Ivascyn October 19, 1909 center|60px William Whittem Jenness April 3, 1904 center|60px Adolph Johnson July 20, 1885 center|60px Ernest A. Johnson March 13, 1897 center|60px Stanley Everett Johnson October 4, 1911 center|60px Allan Francis Jones June 29, 1921 center|60px Abraham Herbert Kahalas center|60px Sumner Z. Kaplan February 3, 1920 center|60px William Francis Keenan January 8, 1921 center|60px James H. Kelly October 15, 1919 center|60px Archibald E. Kenefick November 4, 1896 center|60px George V. Kenneally Jr. December 29, 1929 center|60px John P. Kennedy February 24, 1918 center|60px Edward L. Kerr March 6, 1909 center|60px Cornelius F. Kiernan August 15, 1917 center|60px Philip Kimball June 6, 1918 center|60px William James Kingston October 17, 1909 center|60px Thomas Edward Kitchen December 16, 1924 center|60px Freyda Koplow October 26, 1907 center|60px Walter Kostanski December 10, 1923 center|60px Edmund Vincent Lane August 31, 1893 center|60px John Joseph Lawless July 15, 1912 center|60px James R. Lawton October 20, 1925 center|60px Carter Lee July 3, 1907 center|60px Frank F. Lemos January 6, 1901 center|60px Peter J. Levanti March 19, 1903 center|60px Francis W. Lindstrom December 18, 1898 center|60px John Joseph Linehan March 26, 1933 center|60px Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916 center|60px John J. Long December 10, 1927 center|60px William Longworth August 17, 1914 center|60px J. Robert Mahan December 14, 1903 center|60px William E. Maloney June 5, 1904 center|60px Francis Joseph Marr October 10, 1927 center|60px Rico Matera June 21, 1917 center|60px Joseph F. McEvoy Jr. April 27, 1918 center|60px Manuel Victor Medeiros March 15, 1908 center|60px Wilfred S. Mirsky September 14, 1906 center|60px Joe Moakley April 27, 1927 center|60px Robert Francis Mooney February 16, 1931 center|60px William Dix Morton Jr. November 5, 1904 center|60px Charles A. Mullaly Jr. September 28, 1910 center|60px John E. Murphy February 13, 1900 center|60px Bessie Murray February 27, 1901 center|60px Cornelius Joseph Murray August 19, 1890 center|60px Harold Clinton Nagle July 27, 1917 center|60px John J. Navin September 9, 1915 center|60px Thomas M. Newth March 15, 1911 center|60px Leo James Normandin December 14, 1922 center|60px William F. Nourse September 12, 1922 center|60px Walter Wilson O'Brien October 14, 1910 center|60px David J. O'Connor November 9, 1924 center|60px Thomas J. O'Connor July 27, 1925 center|60px George Henry O'Farrell November 15, 1910 center|60px Joseph Michael O'Loughlin November 26, 1914 center|60px George J. O'Shea Jr. January 5, 1929 center|60px Daniel Matthew O'Sullivan August 17, 1921 center|60px Frank B. Oliveira center|60px William F. Otis October 12, 1903 center|60px Harold A. Palmer October 15, 1906 center|60px Charles Louis Patrone March 17, 1914 center|60px Charles W. Patterson January 30, 1917 center|60px Theodore Clark Perkins January 7, 1915 center|60px Patrick Francis Plunkett March 21, 1917 center|60px Michael A. Porrazzo June 2, 1913 center|60px George William Porter November 6, 1885 center|60px Harvey Armand Pothier September 6, 1901 center|60px Meyer Pressman February 11, 1907 center|60px Robert H. Quinn January 30, 1928 center|60px Philip Andrew Quinn February 21, 1910 center|60px William I. Randall September 13, 1915 center|60px George E. Rawson December 6, 1886 center|60px Leo Joseph Reynolds February 29, 1920 center|60px Frank G. Rico June 2, 1912 center|60px Daniel H. Rider July 15, 1912 center|60px John E. Riley center|60px Harold Rosen (politician) 1906 center|60px Nathan Rosenfeld January 31, 1906 center|60px William H. J. Rowan June 21, 1879 center|60px Harry Della Russo May 26, 1907 center|60px Roger A. Sala August 8, 1893 center|60px Joseph Douglas Saulnier April 14, 1906 center|60px Anthony M. Scibelli October 16, 1911 center|60px John Ralph Sennott Jr. April 22, 1910 center|60px John Ellsworth Sheldon August 17, 1909 center|60px Joseph Silvano March 1, 1909 center|60px Michael John Simonelli May 9, 1913 center|60px Michael F. Skerry January 3, 1909 center|60px Fletcher Smith Jr. May 20, 1918 center|60px George T. Smith March 18, 1888 center|60px Leo Sontag August 16, 1922 center|60px Anthony William Spadafora October 20, 1924 center|60px George William Spartichino June 11, 1924 center|60px George I. Spatcher February 2, 1902 center|60px C. Clifford Stone August 20, 1897 center|60px William Christopher Sullivan October 13, 1924 center|60px Joseph A. Sylvia August 19, 1892 center|60px Joseph A. Sylvia Jr. September 16, 1903 center|60px Alvin C. Tamkin June 19, 1924 center|60px Armand N. Tancrati May 3, 1914 center|60px Frank Daniel Tanner February 3, 1888 center|60px Edna Telford February 28, 1899 center|60px John F. Thompson (politician) May 20, 1920 center|60px George Hawley Thompson June 8, 1917 center|60px Irene Thresher July 6, 1900 center|60px Nathaniel Tilden November 3, 1903 center|60px Robert Xavier Tivnan June 9, 1924 center|60px John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909 center|60px Henry Andrews Turner March 22, 1887 center|60px Warren A. Turner January 25, 1905 center|60px Earle Stanley Tyler December 18, 1896 center|60px John Taylor Tynan June 7, 1920 center|60px Theodore Jack Vaitses May 8, 1901 center|60px Alfred R. Voke February 12, 1919 center|60px Joseph Francis Walsh February 9, 1907 center|60px Martin H. Walsh July 31, 1916 Barclay H. Warburton III February 5, 1922 center|60px Chester H. Waterous November 18, 1905 center|60px Norman S. Weinberg 1919 center|60px Benjamin Horace White April 11, 1902 center|60px Philip F. Whitmore September 10, 1892 center|60px John W. Whittemore January 30, 1906 Clarence Wilkinson September 26, 1910 center|60px Charles E. Wilkinson December 26, 1883 center|60px Arthur Williams December 14, 1915 center|60px Joseph Wisniowski March 1, 1918 center|60px Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski September 18, 1926 center|60px Stanislaus George Wondolowski August 20, 1909 center|60px Alton Hamilton Worrall April 20, 1893 center|60px Albert H. Zabriskie December 7, 1917 center|60px Paul G. Zollo August 26, 1904 See also 85th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References Further reading 1957 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court 2452/40793 A letter to the members of the Massachusetts General Court Thoreau Society Bulletin 62 1958 23397957 Teale Edwin Way Hosmer Gladys E. H. Harding Walter Harrison Dorothea K. Jackson Randolph Nelson Truman Nichols John E. Robbins Roland Schoenfeldt Arthur Wheeler Ruth R. Zahniser Howard 5–6 ("Please support Senate Bill 280 to place Walden Pond State Reservation under control of the Department of Natural Resources...") External links 2452/238761 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1957 Massachusetts General Court 2452/46056 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1957 2452/238762 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1958 Massachusetts General Court 2452/40892 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1958 Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts Category:1957 in Massachusetts massachusetts Category:1958 in Massachusetts